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Wildfires in Salima

Salima, Malawi, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 17,405 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.1% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 High 39° · 24 % · 34 km/h
  2. Fri 23 High 38° · 22 % · 33 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very high 38° · 22 % · 50 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Extreme 35° · 28 % · 50 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very high 36° · 26 % · 45 km/h
  6. Tue 27 High 36° · 32 % · 33 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very high 37° · 26 % · 38 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 30 % · 43 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

17,405
hectares burned
8.1 %
of its area
16
fires
2,158
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Salima

  1. 1,060 ha Salima fire, 11 June 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 4,179 ha Salima fire, 3 June 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 4,156 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 1,317 ha Salima fire, September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,647 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,841 ha Salima fire, May 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,831 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,128 ha Salima fire, June 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,121 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,371 ha Salima fire, October 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,528 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 522 ha Lilongwe fire, October 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 1,293 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 23 ha Lilongwe fire, September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,443 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,132 ha Salima fire, 5 May 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,126 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 2,457 ha Salima fire, 4 May 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,443 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 21 ha Dedza fire, September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,731 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 1,071 ha Salima fire, May 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 17 ha Lilongwe fire, October 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,049 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 7 ha Lilongwe fire, 27 August 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 102 ha Lilongwe fire, July 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,156 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 1,156 ha Salima fire, August 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,149 ha in total · 5 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/National Statistics Office of Malawi, OCHA ROSEA (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).